Five minor girls were rescued from the railway station here by Government Railway Police (GRP) when they were being trafficked by two persons who were arrested, GRP said today.
The girls, aged between 15 and 17 years and hailing from Gajapati and Kandhamal districts, were rescued by activists of an NGO and GRP on Tuesday, a GRP official said.
Two persons were picked up from the railway station while they were waiting for a train to take the girls to Goa, he said.
The girls were rescued when the NGO 'Childline' got information about the trafficking of the girls, said its Berhampur Director Sudhir Sabat.
The rescued girls were now in the custody of the NGO on the direction of the Child Welfare Committee, Ganjam, he said.
Everything in the book is from observation and collected
stories, she says.
"I had spoken to other women as well. Each character is an amalgamation of characteristics of different real people practicing similar roles."
The book's cover has a glass bottle with a stopper and it conveys exactly what the title suggests - the suppressed anger of the Pakistani obedient daughter.
"The glass bottle is used throughout the book as a metaphor for anger that is suppressed on a daily basis," Tariq says.
Asked how common it is to see a Sarah in Pakistan's households, she says, "I would not say that everyone has the same set of challenges, but yes, I think a lot of women will be able to relate to some of Sarah's challenges, because they themselves might have faced similar ones. I have been witness to that."
Tariq has herself backed her text with illustrations, a process which she terms as very challenging.
"It takes me a great deal of effort to make these illustrations. I keep going through a cycle of 'I can't do this' to 'I really love doing this'. My process is a mixture of digital and analogue. The first thing was to decide the theme. Then comes mind-mapping, lists and brainstorming. Then I conducted surveys. Then I made a moodboard of inspirations, this can consist of visual styles, color schemes and content, even fashion trends.
"I finally got to making my characters, which were quite a few drafts, this was on paper. Simultaneously I would also list out the different instances in Sarah's life and just mapping out the entire book."
Then she starts taking things to the computer.
"Friends and family would pose for me to draw various postures. I would roughly draw out scenes on paper and work on them digitally. Final prototype involved printing, sticking and binding. This is obviously a brief explanation, I am completely skipping the blood, sweat and tears," she says about her work.
Karachi-based Tariq, who is the creative head at the Citizens Archive of Pakistan and the managerial director and improviser with The Platoon, currently has no plans to take Sarah's story forward.
